BPB12 Symposium: Photography’s Contested Spaces

A one day symposium exploring the political challenges and possibilities faced by photography today. Focusing on the effects of the financial meltdown and the changes digitisation has made to culture, the event considers four related aspects of photography as sites and tools for political contestation: images, participation, institutions and curation. Topics to be addressed include the online flow of activist imagery; occupation and the image; citizen photography; participatory practices; cuts to public arts funding; the museum as a political site; and the politics of digital curation.